ML69049151
Contributor
Marshall Iliff Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Chatham Light and Lighthouse Beach
Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
**unseasonal and apparent first Sep record for MA; second-summer bird molting to third-winter, 15-20% smaller than Great Black-backed and about size of Herring, with chesty, flat-headed appearance, short primary projection, and rather long bill. Eye pale, bill mostly pink with limited dark right at tip. Entirely whitish except moderate amount of large pale brown smudges around nape, neck and upper chest and mantle with fairly extensive pale gray; primaries pure white with p10 obviously missing most of feather and reduced to shaft with minimal barbs off each side, visible in photos; seen sitting and feeding in water at tip of point right across from Chatham Light; digiscoped
Technical information
- Model
- iPhone SE
- Lens
- iPhone SE back camera 4.15mm f/2.2
- ISO
- 25
- Focal length
- 4.2 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/2.2
- Shutter speed
- 1/1832 sec
- Dimensions
- 4032 pixels x 3024 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.45 MB